Virton
Virton is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is also the administrative centre of the district of the same name, as well as the principal town of the small region of Belgian Lorraine known as the Gaume, famous for its microclimate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 11,700 residents
- Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “85045”
- Postal code: 6760
Places of Interest
Highlights include Virton railway station and Stade Yvan Georges.
Virton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Noben k, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Virton railway station is a railway station in Virton, Luxembourg, Belgium. It is located on railway line 165, from Athus to Libramont. It was commissioned in 1879 by the Society of Railway Virton, and was formerly called Virton-Saint-Mard railway station.
Stade Yvan Georges
Stadium
Stade Yvan Georges is a stadium in Virton, Belgium. It is used for football matches and is the home ground of Excelsior Virton. The stadium holds 4,015 spectators.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rouvroy and Meix-devant-Virton.
Rouvroy
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rouvroy is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 27.68 km. Wallonia and Belgium's southernmost point is situated in the municipality, at Torgny. Rouvroy is situated 4½ km southwest of Virton.
Meix-devant-Virton
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meix-devant-Virton is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2017 the municipality had 2,812 inhabitants. Meix-devant-Virton is situated 6 km northwest of Virton.
Robelmont
Village
Photo: Pilebidule, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Robelmont is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Meix-devant-Virton, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. The asteroid 1145 Robelmonte is named after the village, in honour of the astronomer Sylvain Arend, who was born there. Robelmont is situated 3½ km northwest of Virton.
Virton
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Virton, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
49.5677° or 49° 34′ 4″ northLongitude
5.533° or 5° 31′ 59″ eastPopulation
11,700Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)Open location code
8FX7HG9M+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 79452949OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2784556Wikidata ID
Q456495
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Zeeuws—“Virton” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վիրտոն”
- Basque: “Virton”
- Breton: “Virton”
- Bulgarian: “Виртон”
- Catalan: “Virton”
- Cebuano: “Virton”
- Chinese: “維爾通”
- Chinese: “维尔通”
- Czech: “Virton”
- Danish: “Virton”
- Dutch: “Virton”
- Esperanto: “Virton”
- Estonian: “Virton”
- French: “Virton”
- German: “Virton”
- German: “Wirten”
- Greek: “Βιρτόν”
- Hebrew: “וירטון”
- Hungarian: “Virton”
- Irish: “Virton”
- Italian: “Virton”
- Japanese: “ヴィルトン”
- Korean: “비르통”
- Latin: “Vertunum”
- Limburgan: “Virton”
- Lithuanian: “Virtonas”
- Luxembourgish: “Virton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Virton”
- Norwegian: “Virton”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Virton”
- Persian: “ویرتن”
- Polish: “Virton”
- Portuguese: “Virton”
- Romanian: “Virton”
- Russian: “Виртон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Virton”
- Slovak: “Virton”
- Spanish: “Virton”
- Swedish: “Virton”
- Turkish: “Virton”
- Ukrainian: “Віртон (Бельгія)”
- Vietnamese: “Virton”
- Volapük: “Virton”
- Walloon: “Vierton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Virton”
- Zeeuws: “Virton”
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